Inner anti-capitalist belief licenses continued capitalist participation.
Evidence
So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange. According to Žižek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal – we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 31
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the disavowal structure traced in the established record’s materials on ideology, hypocrisy, and performative belief. — connects to: Corporate anti-capitalism strengthens capitalist realism rather than challenging it. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 29; Private anti-capitalist belief licenses continued capitalist participation — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 31; Believing capitalism is bad licenses continued participation in it — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 31 (+2 more)
Related
- Private anti-capitalist belief licenses continued capitalist participation (similarity 0.95)
- Believing capitalism is bad licenses continued participation in it (similarity 0.94)
- Corporate anti-capitalism strengthens capitalist realism rather than challenging it. (similarity 0.80)
- Capitalism functions on performed belief rather than sincere conviction (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Private anti-capitalist belief licenses continued capitalist participation
#corroborates(0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 31 - Believing capitalism is bad licenses continued participation in it
#corroborates(0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 31 - Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content
#expands(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 582 - Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted
#expands(0.72) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468